Stacy C. Marsella
Professor, Interdisciplinary with College of Science
Research interests
- Human behavior modeling, particularly health applications
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Rutgers University
- MS in Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- BA in Economics, Harvard University
Biography
Stacy Marsella is a professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Science at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
Marsella’s multidisciplinary research is grounded in the computational modeling of human cognition, emotion, and social behavior, as well as the evaluation of those models. Beyond its relevance to understanding human behavior, the work has applications in health interventions, social skills training, and planning operations. Marsella's applied work includes frameworks for large-scale social simulations of towns and a range of techniques and tools for creating virtual humans, facsimiles of people that can engage in face-to-face interactions.
Prior to joining Northeastern, Marsella was a research professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and a research director at the Institute for Creative Technologies. He also held positions at USC’s Information Sciences Institute (1996–2009) and at Bell Labs (1995–96).
Marsella has served as a general chair of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems and chair of Intelligent Virtual Agents. In 2010, he received an ACM SIIGART career award for his contributions to agent research. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, a board member of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, and a member of the steering committee for Intelligent Virtual Agents. He also is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychologists and a member of both the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the International Society for Research on Emotions.
Recent publications
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Ahead-of-time Compilation for Diverse Samplers of Constrained Design Spaces
Citation: Abdelrahman Madkour, Ross Mawhorter, Stacy Marsella, Adam M. Smith , Steven Holtzen. (2024). Ahead-of-time Compilation for Diverse Samplers of Constrained Design Spaces FDG, 54. https://doi.org/10.1145/3649921.3656986 -
Agent-Based Modeling of Human Decision-makers Under Uncertain Information During Supply Chain Shortages
Citation: Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Noah Chicoine, Jacqueline A. Griffin, Özlem Ergun, Stacy Marsella. (2023). Agent-Based Modeling of Human Decision-makers Under Uncertain Information During Supply Chain Shortages AAMAS, 1886-1894. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3545946.3598855 -
Effectiveness of Teamwork-Level Interventions through Decision-Theoretic Reasoning in a Minecraft Search-and-Rescue Task
Citation: David V. Pynadath, Nikolos Gurney, Sarah Kenny, Rajay Kumar, Stacy C. Marsella, Haley Matuszak, Hala Mostafa, Pedro Sequeira, Volkan Ustun, Peggy Wu. (2023). Effectiveness of Teamwork-Level Interventions through Decision-Theoretic Reasoning in a Minecraft Search-and-Rescue Task AAMAS, 2334-2336. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3545946.3598925 -
Thought Bubbles: A Proxy into Players’ Mental Model Development
Citation: Omid Mohaddesi, Noah Chicoine, Min Gong, Özlem Ergun, Jacqueline A. Griffin, David R. Kaeli, Stacy Marsella, Casper Harteveld. (2023). Thought Bubbles: A Proxy into Players' Mental Model Development CoRR, abs/2301.13101. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.13101 -
Thought Bubbles: A Proxy into Players’ Mental Model Development
Citation: Omid Mohaddesi, Noah Chicoine, Min Gong, Özlem Ergun, Jacqueline A. Griffin, David R. Kaeli, Stacy Marsella, Casper Harteveld. (2023). Thought Bubbles: A Proxy into Players' Mental Model Development CoRR, abs/2301.13101. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.13101 -
Modeling Emotion-Focused Coping as a Decision Process
Citation: Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Stacy Marsella. (2022). Modeling Emotion-Focused Coping as a Decision Process ACII, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACII55700.2022.9953834 -
Investigating the Non-verbal Behavior Features of Bullying for the Development of an Automatic Recognition System in Social Virtual Reality
Citation: Cristina Fiani, Stacy Marsella. (2022). Investigating the Non-verbal Behavior Features of Bullying for the Development of an Automatic Recognition System in Social Virtual Reality AVI, 67:1-67:3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531073.3534492 -
Disaster world
Citation: David V. Pynadath, Bistra Dilkina, David C. Jeong, Richard S. John, Stacy C. Marsella, Chirag Merchant, Lynn C. Miller, Stephen J. Read. (2023). Disaster world Comput. Math. Organ. Theory, 29, 84-117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10588-022-09359-y -
Shifting Trust: Examining How Trust and Distrust Emerge, Transform, and Collapse in COVID-19 Information Seeking
Citation: Yixuan Zhang, Nurul M Suhaimi, Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Joseph D Gaggiano, Miso Kim, Shivani A Patel, Yifan Sun, Stacy Marsella, Jacqueline Grifn, and Andrea G Parker. 2022. Shifting Trust: Examining How Trust and Distrust Emerge, Transform, and Collapse in COVID-19 Information Seeking. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 21 pages. doi:10.1145/3491102.3501889 -
A Computational Model of Coping for Simulating Human Behavior in High-Stress Situations
Citation: Nutchanon Yongsatianchot and Stacy Marsella. 2021. A Computational Model of Coping for Simulating Human Behavior in High-Stress Situations. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '21). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, 1425–1433. doi:10.5555/3463952.3464116 -
Training public speaking with virtual social interactions: effectiveness of real-time feedback and delayed feedback
Citation: Mathieu Chollet, Stacy Marsella, Stefan Scherer. (2022). Training public speaking with virtual social interactions: effectiveness of real-time feedback and delayed feedback J. Multimodal User Interfaces, 16, 17-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-021-00371-1
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